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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01867	Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general. And particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. Hearing the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer. / By Jeremiah Burroughs. At the end of the contents of this book is printed the titles of all the works of Mr. Ieremiah Burroughs, that are published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1648 (1648)	Wing B6084A; ESTC R173334	230,318	294

Children and when you that are Parents meet with stubborn Children you should reflect Doth not God come righteously upon me And so you that we servants you are stout to your Masters why afterwards when you come to have Servants they will be so to you and perhaps you were unfaithful to your Governours afterwards when you come to have Servants it 's a thousand to one but they will be so to you Now you should strike your hand upon your heart and say It 's just with God that it should be so and that He should come upon me in my own kind Another Note is this They offered strange fire Let 's take heed all of us how we bring strange fire into Gods service Bring strange fire into Gods service What 's that I find divers Writers speaking upon this saith Ambrose Lusts and Covetousnesse are this strange fire That which I would have you consider of is this Above all strange fire take heed of the strange fire of Passion and Anger and especially in the Worship of God and at any time when you find your hearts heated and fired with Anger when you are about to Worship God remember this Scripture Nadab and Abihu were consum'd by God with fire from God for coming into Gods presence with strange fire Now O Lord how often have we come into thy presence with strange fire Perhaps your hearts have been burning hot with Passion when you have been coming into Gods presence You are to pray with fervency for so the Scripture saith we are indeed to be heat in Prayer by the Holy Ghost in our hearts but certainly not to come with the fire of Passion and Anger Lift up your hands without wrath and doubting If you have been Passionate and your hearts have been heat that way be sure you get your hearts cold before you go to Prayer And so when you come to hear the Word if your hearts have been heat with Passion be sure you get them cold before you come to heare the Word Receive with meekness the ingrafted Word that may save your souls And so when you come to the Lords Supper Take heed of coming with Wrath and Malice for then you come but to offer strange fire It 's a speciall Consideration for Ministers that come to Preach they should take heed of bringing strange fire into their Pulpits that is of venturing their own Passions That hath been ever a rule that I have been convinced of since I knew any thing of Preaching That that man that is appointed to reveal Gods Wrath had need to conceal his own wrath that 's certainly a rule for all preachers for the Lord sends His Preachers to make known His wrath against mens sins but now the more they make known His wrath the more they should conceal their own and so by that means when they come in the openest way to manifest Gods wrath the more their Preaching would be accepted Now it's true a carnal heart would be ready to think That when a Preacher speaks out of true zeal to God he will be ready to say That he hath aiming at himself Take heed of that I beleeve you have had but little occasion of such a temptation in this place But however this I know it is the duty of the Mini ers of God to be sure to bring nothing but the fire of the Spirit of God the fire that they have from the Altar their tongues being toucht with one of these coals and not that they should come with their own Passions to further the Righteousness of God no The wrath of man doth not accomplish the Righteousness of God There are some other particulars which being laid down we shall come to the Three main Points SERMON II. LEVITICUS 10.3 I will be Sanctified in them that come nigh me Stepney Nov 16. 1645. WEE began these words the last day and shewed the scope of them and opened the meaning of them and spake of divers Notes of Observation that we gathered from this story of Nadav and Abinu and of Gods dealing with them From the generall story of it there we●e many Points o● notable Observation that were drawn from thence He adde some few now and so come to the main Doctrinal Point in the Text. A further Note of Observation is this That many times even the dear Saints of God do meet with very sore and grievous afflictions in their Children That the most eminent Saints of God are not freed from very grievous afflictions even in their Children It was one of the forest afflictions that almost ever any Saint of God met withall in his Children this affliction of Aaron at this time That two of his Sons and as I told you the last day renowned men in Israel newly consecrated to the Office of Priesthood that the very first day they came to offer in their Office they were struck before all the people with fire from Heaven and were consumed Oh what a sad affliction was it to Aaron their Father when he saw his Sonnes in such a manner destroyed by God Himself Consider of this you that have Children and are ready to murmur and complaine of every little affliction that is upon you in respect of your Children If so be that your Children be but a little sick or there be any miscarriage of them you think it is a heavy hand of God But especially if God take away your Children by death then you mourn and wil not be comfortred Yea but though God have taken away your Children by death yea perhaps it may be by a violent death as being drowned c. yet they have not been strucken with fire from Heaven by God and they have not been of such publick use These here were renowned men and taken away in their very sin too your Children which have gone upon their lawfull imployments and God hath taken away their lives there is no such cause of murmuring here but when God takes away Children in their sins and in such a way as by fire from Heaven● thus God took away Aarons Children and he was as dear to God as you are And yet thus God deals with His Saints with Aaron in regard of his Children and with his Elder Children and with two of them together This Example may be enough to still and quiet the hearts of men and women that are afflicted in respect of any calamity that befals their Children You see what a hand of God is against the very Children of Aaron A further Note is this That Gods judgements we see sometimes though the effect of them be visible yet they come in an invisible way For you shal find if you reade on in this story That they were smote with fire from heaven but it did not appear what fire for it did not so much as consume their cloaths nor their bodies but went through al struck them dead and no body could tel how Gods judgements do come in a way that is

and slew them both presently in the very Sanctuary before all the people for it was a solemn time being the beginning of the solemn Consecration of the Priesthood Upon this the spirit of Aaron could not but be exceedingly troubled to see his two Sons thus struck Now Moses comes to him and saith This is that which the Lord spake I will be Sanctified in them ●●at draw nigh me and before all the people I will be glorified And upon this Aaron held his peace We reade that once fire came down from Heaven in a way of Mercy to consume the Sacrifices but now fire comes down from heaven in a way of Judgment to consume the Sacrificers even Nadab and Abihu they were Aarons sons the sons of a godly man the son of the High-Priest they were his eldest sons for Aaron had other sons besides Nadab and Abihu Eleazer and Ithamar but these were his two eldest sons they were two young men they were struck in the very prime of their age they were two that were newly consecrated in the Priests office for so you find it in the 9. Chap. And they were two men of renown in the country and before all the people of Israel two men that God had much honored heretofore as you shall find in the 24 Chap. of Exod and the beginning this Nadab and Abihu were men of great repute and great renown that God did much honor in former times for when God called Moses and Aaron with the Elders to come up to him He singles out Nadab and Abihu amongst the rest and names them And he said unto Moses Come up unto the Lord thou and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and 70. of the Elders of Israel Moses and Aaron Nadab and Abihu are only named and then 70. of the Elders in general but Moses Aaron Nadab and Abihu as if these were the four eminent men of renown among all the people of Israel he names none of the 70. Elders but these two besides Moses and Aaron therefore these two that were consumed by strange fire were renowned men and newly consecrated into their Office What was their sin Their sin it was offering of strange fire so the Text saith that they offered strange fire which God commanded them not in the beginning of the Chapter But had God ever forbidden it Where do we find that ever God had forbidden them to offer strange Fire or appointed that they should oner only one kind of fire There is no Text of Scripture that you can find from the beginning of Genesis to this place where God hath said in terminis in so many words expresly You shall offer no fire but one kind of fire And yet here they are consumed by fire from God for offering strange fire I find in the 30. of Exod. ver 9. that there they were forbidden offering strange Incense but I do not find that they were forbidden offering strange fire In Levit. 6.13 and divers verses in that Chapter we find that God had appointed that they should keep constantly the fire on the Altar burning and never to let it go out Now that was it seems Gods intention that therefore they should make use of that fire and that fire only God would have them to pick out his meaning God sent fire down from heaven upon the Altar so in the latter end of the 9. Chap. God sent down fire from heaven gave them a charge to keep that fire on the Altar constantly and never to let it go out so that it seems God would have them pick out his meaning that because he had sent down fire from heaven upon the Altar and gave them power to keep that constantly God would have them therfore to understand that what Incense or Sacrifice he would have the use of fire in it should be only that fire and no other though God did never say to them directly in these words You shall make use of this fire and no other but God would have them to understand this That 's their sin therefore in offering of strange fire Now fire comes from the Lord and doth consume them Some think this fire came from the Altar but surely it could not be any ordinary fire that did consume Nadab and Abihu at this time for you shall find in the next ver to my text That the bodies of Nadab and Abihu were not consumed by the fire no not their cloathes they were kil'd by the fire and yet their cloathes were whol therefore it was not an ordinary fire it was some Coelestial fire struck into them to slay them for so saith the text in the 4th ver Come neer carry away your brethren from before the Sanctuary out of the Camp and so they went and carried them in their coats out of the Camp so that their cloathes and bodies were not consumed only they were kil'd by the fire they were struck with a sudden death and that in the presence of the Lord such a death as God had never threatned in the Word before God had never threatned the Priests and said If you Offer strange fire you shall be consumed by fire but yet God smites them with death by fire they had not time to seek God no not so much as we use to say as to say Lord have mercy upon me they had no time to promise amendment at all now upon this heavy judgment the heart of Aaron could not possibly but be very much troubled yea and the spirit of Moses too for Moses was their unkle and Aaron their father they could not but be exceedingly much greived but Moses being the brother of Aaron seeing his spirit no question exceedingly troubled being under such a sad affliction and that such a Godly man even as Aaron was should have such a sad judgment befal his Children Moses comes and speaks comfortably to him and labors to support his spirit and how doth he do it He comes not as ordinarily you use to visit your brethren Oh! you must be content with this no but he comes and applyes the Word of God and shews how God must be Sanctified and by that he comes to quiet the heart of his brother Aaron This is that which the Lord hath spoke saith Moses He seeks to stay the heart of his Brother with that which God spake But where do we find that God spake this It 's hard to find in any Scripture these very words in terminis before this time and therefore Augustin thinks it was only the word God spake but not written and so they had it from hand to hand by tradition as many other things as the Prophecie of Enoch that the Apostle Jude speaks of you do not find it written in the Book of God and yet the Apostle speaks of it so that indeed it was from hand to hand yea and we find in the new Testament when Paul speaks of a thing that Christ should say how that our Lord saith It is a more blessed thing

because the two elder sons had the dignity and priviledge to come and of er the Incense and having greater dignity than the younger and not being careful to behave themselves as they ought to do the Lord smote them and the younger they escaped And so many times those that are in a meaner condition they escape when those that are in a higher condition they are struck Let men that are in higher conditions than others look to themselves for their danger is greater And you that are in a meaner condition envy not those that are higher for you may be more safe in that mean condition which you are in than they in theirs The Fifth Note is this That the beginnings of things of high concernment do meet sometimes with great difficulties and interuptions This Note I gather from hence That Nadab and Abihu were struck at the very beginning of their Priest hood As now suppose there were a new Office erected in a Common-wealth that concern'd the Publick good of the Kingdom and in the very first erecting of the Office there falls out some hideous accident that rang thoroughout the whol Kingdom as if God from Heaven had done something against them in that Office As now Suppose that the first time the Iudges should come at the Bench that God should strike them from Heaven dead at the very Bench it would be a mighty matter to darken the glory and honor of that Office So one would think that it should have been a mighty matter to have darkned the glory and the honor of the Priest hood alwayes But God stands not upon that many times the beginnings of great things are darkned by sad accidents and therefore let us not be offended though we see some sad accidents to fall out at the beginning of great things for though accidents fall out sadly at first yet God may prosper it afterwards as He did the Priesthood The sixth Note is That those that enter into Publick places and especially such places as concern the Worship of God they had need have the fear of God much upon them when they first enter into those places Now this were a very good Point if I were to preach to an Auditory of Ministers You see Nadab and Abihu upon their first consecration the Lord smote them for this little miscarriage as we would think And that 's a Sixth Note which especially concerns Ministers and therefore I pass it over The Seventh Note that wee have and that 's very usefull for us all God would have us all to pick out his mind from dark expressions in his Word Though He doth not express His Will fully and in express terms yet if there be any thing in His Word whereby we may come to gather the mind of God God expects that we should gather His mind out of His Word and if we do not it 's at our own peril The mind of God about this strange fire that these offered you will say They were to pick it out How could they have known that it was Gods mind that they should not offer any fire but that on the Altar They should have reasoned thus with themselves What hath God let fire come down from Heaven upon the Altar and hath He Commanded that that should be preserved on the Altar for His Service Surely this must be Gods mind then that we should make use of this fire rather than any other fire God expects that they should have reasoned thus but because they did not pick out Gods mind by reasoning after this manner therefore the Hand of God came out upon them They offended and it may be it was through ignorance but it was at their peril if they were ignorant of the minde of God when it might be known though it were but darkly revealed and were to be pick't out from several places compared together it was at their peril It is a Point that we have a great deal of need of for this is the vain heart of man That if there be any thing that God would have that is not sutable to his own ends he will stand wrangling against it and cavelling at it How doth it appear will he say can you bring express Scripture for it Bring me express Scripture in words for to prove it and then I wil beleeve it and so stands out til you bring so many words of Scripture that forbids such a thing or commands such a duty Now my brethren if you be of this temper That you will forbear nothing nor set up any thing but what you have directly express words of Scripture for you may run at your own perill into woful dangers into wofull sins know that God hath so revealed a great part of his mind as it is only to be known by gathering one thing from another and by comparing one thing with another And God expects this from you That if upon examination of Scripture that one thing appear more likely to be His mind and will than another you are bound to go that way that is more likely I told you before That in matters of Worship we must have warrant from the Word but it doth not follow That we must have a direct express warrant in every thing As it is many times in some kind of picture the great art it is in the cast of the looks you cannot say it 's in the drawing of this line or the other line but altogether it is the cast of the looks that causes the beauty of the picture So in the Scripture you cannot say that this one line or the other line take it single that proves it but let them be laid all together and there will be a kind of aspect of Gods mind that we may see that this is the mind of God rather than the other and we are bound to go that way Now so far Nadab Abihu might have seen that they should rather have taken fire off the Altar than any other fire But they presum'd because they had not express Word and you see it was at their peril Oh take heed of standing out and wrangling against what is required because you have not expresse words the Lord hath laid things so and especially in the New Testament for the ordering of the Church in the New Testament as you have not expresse Command for abundance of things but sometimes an example in some things and sometimes not a cleer example neither but compare one thing with another and that which seems to be neerest the mind of God that should be bond enough to us to tye us to go according to what the mind of God seems most probable to be in the Scripture and an humble teachable heart will soon be convinced when another man will not We find it cleerly That such things that are most sutable to mens own ends a little matter will serve the turn to perswade men to it though one might argue against it I could easily shew it but